This makes me wonder strongly what you would consider a significant amount of alcohol consumption, because 5 drinks/week seems like a huge amount to me already.
Where on earth do you live? Looking at some stats, that number was the average for the UAE in 2016. At this time it was illegal to drink without a license, and Muslims could not obtain these at all.
I live in the Netherlands and here alcohol consumption is highly skewed. Smoking too btw. Also one of the few - if not only - places where alcohol consumption correlates inversely with poverty.
If you drink here, you're probably an alcoholic. Even if most don't think they are.
Can't believe that, though I haven't been in .nl for a long time, so I have no 'feeling' for how it could be now. But why then there is Amstel, Grolsch, Heineken and some more?
I think they were saying everyone who drinks there is an alcoholic (by normative global standards?). The reason there would be so many beer brands is because there are a lot of consumers :)
One thing to remember that is that for alcohol consumption, average >>> median. The top drinkers drink an astronomical amount, but a typical person drinks much less than the average.
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This makes me wonder strongly what you would consider a significant amount of alcohol consumption, because 5 drinks/week seems like a huge amount to me already.
Where on earth do you live? Looking at some stats, that number was the average for the UAE in 2016. At this time it was illegal to drink without a license, and Muslims could not obtain these at all.
I live in the Netherlands and here alcohol consumption is highly skewed. Smoking too btw. Also one of the few - if not only - places where alcohol consumption correlates inversely with poverty.
If you drink here, you're probably an alcoholic. Even if most don't think they are.
Can't believe that, though I haven't been in .nl for a long time, so I have no 'feeling' for how it could be now. But why then there is Amstel, Grolsch, Heineken and some more?
I think they were saying everyone who drinks there is an alcoholic (by normative global standards?). The reason there would be so many beer brands is because there are a lot of consumers :)
One thing to remember that is that for alcohol consumption, average >>> median. The top drinkers drink an astronomical amount, but a typical person drinks much less than the average.
significant is more like 5 drinks/day, not /week